Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction
The Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a debut work of fiction on LGBT themes. Formerly presented in two separate categories for gay male and lesbian debut fiction, beginning the 25th Lambda Literary Awards in 2013 a single award, inclusive of both male and female writers, was presented. The award was, however, discontinued after the 28th Lambda Literary Awards in 2016.
The award was presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer; heterosexual writers were eligible for the award, and writers could be nominated in the "cross-gender" category based on the work.
Winners and nominees
| Year | Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Gay Debut Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming-Pool Library | Winner | [1] |
| Joe Keenan | Blue Heaven | Finalist | [1] | ||
| Stan Levanthal | Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square | ||||
| C.F. Borgman | River Road | ||||
| Russell A. Brown | Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde | ||||
| 1990 | Gay Debut Fiction | John Weir | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | Winner | [2] |
| Randall Kenan | A Visitation of Spirits | Finalist | [2] | ||
| Mickey C. Fleming | About Courage | ||||
| David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | ||||
| M.S. Hunter | The Buccaneer | ||||
| Roz Perry | Rose Penski | ||||
| 1991 | Gay Debut Fiction | Lev Raphael | Dancing On Tisha B’av | Winner | [3] |
| Bo Huston | Horse and Other Stories | Finalist | [3] | ||
| Matthew Stadler | Landscape: Memory | ||||
| Allen Barnett | The Body and Its Dangers | ||||
| Patrick Moore | This Every Night | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Cherry Muhanji | Her | Winner | [3] | |
| Patricia R. Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | ||||
| Nisa Donnelly | Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Finalist | [3] | ||
| Ruthann Robson | Eye of a Hurricane | ||||
| Vickie Sears | Simple Songs | ||||
| Renee Hansen | Take Me to the Underground | ||||
| Karen Marie Christa Minns | Virago | ||||
| Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso | Voyages Out | ||||
| Julie Blackwomon and Nona Caspers | Voyages Out 2 | ||||
| 1992-2006 | No award presented | ||||
| 2005 | Gay Debut Fiction | Blair Mastbaum | Clay’s Way | Winner | [4] |
| Damian McNicholl | A Son Called Gabriel | Finalist | [4] | ||
| Aaron Krach | Half-Life | ||||
| Mar Acito | How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater | ||||
| Brian Leung | World Famous Love Acts | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Judith Frank | Crybaby Butch | Winner | [4] | |
| Mary Vermillion | Death by Discount | Finalist | [4] | ||
| Kristie Helms | Dish It Up, Baby! | ||||
| Laurinda D. Brown | Fire & Brimstone | ||||
| Bridget Bufford | Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey | ||||
| 2006 | Gay Debut Fiction | Vestal McIntyre | You Are Not the One | Winner | [5] |
| Sulyman X | Bilal’s Bread | Finalist | [5] | ||
| Richard McCann | Mother of Sorrows | ||||
| Mack Friedman | Setting the Lawn on Fire | ||||
| Barry McCrea | The First Verse | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ali Leibegott | The Beautifully Worthless | Winner | [5] | |
| Fiona Zedde | Bliss | Finalist | [5] | ||
| Katia Noyes | Crashing America | ||||
| Ronica Black | In Too Deep | ||||
| Michelle Embree | Manstealing for Fat Girls | ||||
| 2007 | Gay Debut Fiction | Robert Westfield | Suspension | Winner | [6] |
| Timothy Williams | 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds | Finalist | [6] | ||
| Martin Hyatt | A Scarecrow’s Bible | ||||
| Patrick Ryan | Send Me | ||||
| Alex MacLennan | The Zookeeper | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ellis Avery | The Teahouse Fire | Winner | [6] | |
| Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Black Marks | Finalist | [6] | ||
| Ana-Maurine Lara | Erzulie’s Skirt | ||||
| Peggy Munson | Origami Striptease | ||||
| Leslie Larson | Slipstream | ||||
| 2008 | Gay Debut Fiction | Christopher Kelly | A Push and a Shove | Winner | [7][8] |
| James St. James | Freak Show | Finalist | [7] | ||
| Kemble Scott | SoMa | ||||
| James Canon | Tales from the Town of Widows | ||||
| Michael Quadland | That Was Then | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Aoibheann Sweeney | Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking | Winner | [7][8] | |
| Lu Vickers | Breathing Underwater | Finalist | [7] | ||
| Myriam Gurba | Dahlia Season | ||||
| Holly Farris | Lockjaw | ||||
| Corrina Wycoff | O Street | ||||
| 2009 | Gay Debut Fiction | Shawn Stewart Ruff | Finlater | Winner | [9] |
| Evan Fallenberg | Light Fell | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Daniel Allen Cox | Shuck | ||||
| Drew Ferguson | The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second | ||||
| Mike Hoolboom | The Steve Machine | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Magdalena Zurawski | The Bruise | Winner | [9] | |
| Meri Weiss | Closer to Fine | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Chavisa Woods | Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind | ||||
| Linda Villarosa | Passing for Black | ||||
| Jill Malone | Red Audrey & the Roping | ||||
| 2010 | Gay Debut Fiction | Rakesh Satyal | Blue Boy | Winner | [10] |
| James Hannaham | God Says No | Finalist | [10] | ||
| Lance Reynald | Pop Salvation | ||||
| G. Winston James | Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories | ||||
| James Magruder | Sugarless | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Rhiannon Argo | The Creamsickle | Winner | [10] | |
| Maida Tilchen | Land Beyond Maps | Finalist | [10] | ||
| Barb Johnson | More of This World or Maybe Another | ||||
| Lori Ostlund | The Bigness of the World | ||||
| Z Egloff | Verge | ||||
| 2011 | Gay Debut Fiction | David Pratt | Bob the Book | Winner | [11][12] |
| Rob Stephenson | Passes Through | Finalist | [13] | ||
| Tom Mendicino | Probation | ||||
| Tom Schabarum | The Palisades | ||||
| Chris Corkum | XOXO Hayden | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Amber Dawn | Sub Rosa | Winner | [11][12] | |
| Katharine Beutner | Alcestis | Finalist | [13] | ||
| Georgeann Packard | Fall Asleep Forgetting | ||||
| Lois Walden | One More Stop | ||||
| Michael Sledge | The More I Owe You | ||||
| 2012 | Gay Debut Fiction | Rahul Mehta | Quarantine: Stories | Winner | [14] |
| Justin Chin | 98 Wounds | Finalist | |||
| Michael Graves | Dirty One | ||||
| Katherine Scott Nelson | Have You Seen Me | ||||
| Garth Greenwell | Mitko | ||||
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Laurie Weeks | Zipper Mouth | Winner | [14] | |
| Sarah Toshiko Hasu | Megume and the Trees | Finalist | |||
| Lara Fergus | My Sister Chaos | ||||
| Christine Stark | Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation | ||||
| Sally Bellerose | The Girls Club | ||||
| 2013 | Debut Fiction | Mia McKenzie | The Summer We Got Free | Winner | [15] |
| William Sterling Walker | Desire: Tales of New Orleans | Finalist | [15] | ||
| Lydia Perovic | Incidental Music | ||||
| E.J. Levy | Love, In Theory: Ten Stories | ||||
| Kristen Ringman | Makara: A novel | ||||
| Lysley Tenorio | Monstress | ||||
| Alex Leslie | People Who Disappear | ||||
| Jeanne Thornton | The Dream of Doctor Bantam | ||||
| Carter Sickels | The Evening Hour | ||||
| Lania Knight | Three Cubic Feet | ||||
| 2014 | Debut Fiction | Nik Nicholson | Descendants of Hagar | Winner | [16][17] |
| Abigail Tarttelin | Golden Boy | Finalist | [16] | ||
| Derek Palacio | How to Shake the Other Man | ||||
| Jane Hoppen | In Between | ||||
| Charles L. Ross | Inside | ||||
| Andrea Routley | Jane and the Whales | ||||
| Laura Krughoff | My Brother’s Name: A Novel | ||||
| Ronald Palmer | Prick Queasy | ||||
| Amy Grace Loyd | The Affairs of Others: A Novel | ||||
| Guy Mark Foster | The Rest of Us: Stories | ||||
| 2015 | Debut Fiction | Abdi Nazemian | The Walk-In Closet | Winner | [18][19][20][21] |
| Elizabeth Earley | A Map of Everything | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Vinton Rafe McCabe | Death in Venice, California | ||||
| Megan Milks | Kill Marguerite and Other Stories | ||||
| Dia Felix | Nochita | ||||
| Dan Lopez | Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea | ||||
| Bob Sennett | The Music Teacher | ||||
| Alden Jones | Unaccompanied Minors | ||||
| 2016 | Debut Fiction | Victor Yates | A Love Like Blood | Winner | [22][23] |
| Mark S. Luckie | Do U. | Finalist | [24] | ||
| Paul Brownsey | His Steadfast Love and Other Stories | ||||
| Ioannis Pappos | Hotel Living | ||||
| Meliza Bañales | Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific | ||||
| James Driggers | Lovesick | ||||
| Libby Ware | Lum: A Novel | ||||
| Austin Bunn | The Brink | ||||
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